Posted on 04/12/2008 2:28:52 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico -- Police rescued 83 illegal migrants Friday from the hidden compartment of a cramped, sweltering cargo truck carrying animal feed through southern Mexico.
At a roadblock near the Guatemalan border, the panicked migrants alerted officers to their presence by screaming and banging on the walls of the truck, Mexican immigration agent Mario Lopez said.
Lopez said the migrants were dehydrated, bruised and scraped. He said 76 were from Guatemala, five from El Salvador and two from Brazil.
Earlier this week, 54 illegal migrant workers from Myanmar suffocated in the back of an unventilated truck in Thailand.
In Mexico, the truck's driver and his assistant were detained on suspicion of migrant smuggling.
Many Central American migrants travel across Mexico in dangerous conditions en route to the United States. More than 120,000 were detained here in 2007, according to Mexico's National Migration Institute.
I’ll bet Mexico put them all in a nice hotel and are giving them welfare benefits and jobs and medical benefits.
So when they crash the borders of other countries they are illegal migrants and not undocumented workers?
Yup, and the 2 Brazilians will be accommodated for their Portuguese needs.
Only one of two things will happen to them:
1. They will be dropped off at the other side of the Southern Mexico border.
2. They will be robbed, beaten, raped and then put on a freight train heading to El Norte.
If only Mexico believes that our treatment of THEIR citizens was not worse that their treatment of illegals THEY catch, we would have no problems. Willful suspension of disbelief comes to mind as a phrase.
Correction:
“Police Detain 83 Illegal Aliens Illegally Smuggled By Illegal Smugglers Of Illegal Aliens So Stupid It Should Be Illegal”
Ping!
then they should keep them.
Maybe they should...keep the illegals from south of the Mexican border to replace all those hard-working poor people who’ve emigrated to the US...!
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